It Is In Things. Quotes

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.

Handle the little things well

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.

You are proof alone that I can love.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

The greatest gifts are those that say, “I know you”.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

Life is a gift and a challenge.

CUSTOMER: I’m always on night shift at work.BOOKSELLER (jokingly): Is that why you’re buying so many vampire novels?CUSTOMER (seriously): You can never be too prepared.

His lips so soft, yet so stern, he pressed his mouth to mine. "I will have both of you, " he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be.

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

To grow up is to wonder about things

The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things

She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me, ' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.

It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things...some things just have to be done.

We are the pioneers of the world

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them

We take our fetters with us

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

So Shakespeare stole

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.

Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.

Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them.

A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.

How to partner with the power of the cosmos to fulfill your destiny

Many are called, few are chosen.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

There are three perquisites for living:1. Be yourself.2. Get over yourself (Things people have done to you

It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real

A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.

I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.

There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

The things you are afraid of

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have woundsand scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.

...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Your truth isn't everybody else's truth.